58 . - ..'" - . even rofessional orsemen deserve holiday t 8 CAPE COD li06PI TAL liOQ8E 8liOW I and COUNTQY tNQ JULY 7-8- 9 MAUSHOP FARMS COTUIT MASS. PRELIMINARY J U1\1PER ((A" RATED I Amateur-Owner Hunters Pony & J uniot Hunters J uniol Jumpers Webh Pleasure uB" RATED Green Pony Green Hunters J UOCJES Mrs Ellie Baxter Mr Michael Page Mrs Robert Temple Contact: HORSE SHOW Drawer 370 Hyannis, Mass. 02601 Frederick Bacon, Mgr. MAY 2. 7 t t 9 7 2, leery of his product. I thought that he M,lX, \Vharton went on to say thît he lnust he aware of this and that that thought it would be expedient for us awareness lnade hiln unduly sensitive to give up our expensive offices and to cnticisln offered hy his colleagues- 1110ve into cheapel ones. It was put as not that we offered much. One tilne, a 1110tion, and we passed it. Victor after reading EItner's ]atest, I had Salnrock was designated to find the asked Sidney how he liked it. He had cheaper offices. \Vharton undel took to said, "Terrible, but I aln not going to notify Bob of Ollr decision. Boh dr- ten hin1." Nobody told hÏ1n. We just ll1anded another lneeting, at which he ploduced the plays. would he present. That InLLting proved EItner lived at that tÏ1ne in the Hotel tenser than the earlier one. Bob con- r\nsoni.:l, at Seventy-third and Broad- fronted all of us with a plea. '(1)0 not," way, 1.nd after one of his openings-I he said, "take away froln .1 lnan who have forgotten which-he gave a party. has .:llready lost everything-do not I twas s.ld, hec.:tllse we all also take a way fro111 hÏ1n knew that the pIa, didn't thi office." \Ve at once re- have .:1 chance. "rhe walls of voked our edrlier decision. Elll1cr's suite were plastered Salnrock was ordered to stop thick wIth lnodern ,lhstract looking. I did not kno\v th.lt paintings; they contributed to .. Bob's statement was literally .:1 sense of claustrophobia. El-" true-that he had Indeed Iner, oheying sorne iInpulse to O...."' lost everything. I had lunch dig up one .:lrtifact of forlner . / with hi111 the neÀt day and glory, caIne upon wh<:lt he he eÀplained it On a train wanted while going through a desk several years hefore, Boh had asked drawer. He displayed it to us. It was a 111e what I did with lnv lnone\'. I yellowed box-office statelnent of the said that I kept it in savings banks tou r of the third COlnpany of "On Bob said that that was very foolish; Tria]" froln Erie, Pennsylvania. El- he had found a wonderful stockbroker lner 111.:1de it thcln..ltic: how the Alnen- to who 111 he had entrusted his entire can thedtre had in the interval beco111e capital-even his daughter Mar) '5- constrictcd <:lnd provincial. He s<:lid that and that the broker was doing wonder- in 1110St of Alnerica now no one h.:ld fll] things for hitn. The hroker would seen Jive theatre. do the sarne for rne. He gave lne GeneraUy, our COlnpany lneetings the broker's telephone ntl111her and were great fun. ()ne day, Max Ander- strongly urged lne to call hÏtn, using son said he W.:1S on tenterhook,; ahout his own nalne as a reference. I dcvout- s0111ething. Elrner asked, "\,Vhat are ly lneant to caU hÏtn, hut I arn hadly tenterhooks, <:lnywa}?" Sherwood ex- organi7ed and never did. ow, at ] . I " T 1 k " I . d " 1 I B I ld ] 1 d h p allle( . enter 100 s,le saI, are lIncl, . 0) to rne w 1atla ap- the up-hol-ster-ry of the anxious seat." pened: He had arranged for the hrn- I--\fter Boh becalne head of O.Y\T.I., he ker to get his entire incolne directlv; spen t 1110St of his ti '''e in 'V..lshIngton., he lived on an allowance given hÏtn by and carne to very few lneetings. He the broker. l'he allowance stopped was flown to England on a bOlnber. cOIning. Sherwood dClnanded an ex- I He was full of inside stories of Wash- pLlnation and discovered that the bro- Ington, of the President, of \Vinstnn ker, through stupid investlnent and eln- Churchill, of the W.:1r. After the death he7zlelnent, had lost everything Bob of Harrv Hopkins, he undertook to h.:ld In the world cornplete Hopkins' memoir, for which The story made lne angry. How on]y the notes existed. It appeared un- could Bob have let that run on so long der the title "Roosevelt and HopkIns," without looking into things, without and was universally acclaÏtned. making inquiries? One fateful day, ] oh11" 'Vha:rtø1f . Bob answered with sÏtnp]icity. He - () lr presIdent, sUln1l1Qned " 1ta" : "'. f i" spoke very slowly, islanding each syl- ous lneeting. Boh was not present- lable. "He was so bor-ing," he slid, I just Max Anderson, EItner Rice, and "that I a-void-ed hÏtn." I. '/Vharton had SOlne accountants' The years went on. It was herolning statell1ents before him. He confronted Increasingl} clear that the cCHnpany had us with the bleak fact that the COln- developed a life force of its own, which pany had lost twenty-five thousand dol- sapped Iny life force. I was constantly lars in the past year. At this announce':' having to read, criticize, and watch re- lllcnt, Max Anderson grinned widely hearsals of four plays concurrently. I and said, "That's good." He Ineant it, had not Bob's facility; he could sit since it was a lna Jor theIne of his that down in an office-preferably our of- financial stringency was a stÏtnulus to ficc-with telephones ringing and creative effort. Without contradicting people walking in and out and write